On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan<[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope you're not suggesting we drop Mingw/MSys as a build platform, even if > you personally don't want to build with it. I would have found it much > harder to do parallel restore for Windows (which works quite differently > from Unix, and so had to be specifically developed) if I had been forced to > use the MS tool set with which I don't ever otherwise work.
Not at all - in fact we need it to maintain some of the other apps like PostGIS or Slony. I'm just talking about my own use of it for building PG release builds. > I don't think we should deprecate 8.2 on Windows unless we really can't > backport this fix reasonably. Agreed. There are too many users, and it wouldn't be fair to them. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
